Guidance

Environmental Stewardship: Additions, transfers and option changes to existing agreements

New guidance from 2015 for adding or transferring land and making changes to options under your Environmental Stewardship agreement.

• From: Rural Payments Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England
• Published: 23 September 2015
• Last updated: 17 March 2026
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  1. 17 March 2026

     Updates made to adding land section, transferring land, partial transfers and deadline for claims. Removed breach of agreement section.

  2. 23 September 2015

     First published.

Applies to England

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Environmental Stewardship: additions, transfers and option changes to existing agreements

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See the latest update on how Natural England manages changes to ES agreements from 2015.